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    Vortex of War

    Aug 18, 2020 4 minutes
     –Melissa A. Winn

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    Washington, D.C., and Richmond, Va., Fredericksburg, Va., was “a position of Manifest importance to us and the enemy,” according to Union Maj. Gen. Irvin McDowell in 1862. Its railroad and river access would make it the ideal location for a supply base as the Union Army moved south. On November 21, 1862, Maj. Gen.

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